Ivan Hel

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Іван Андрійович Гель
Transl. :	Ivan Andrijovyč Hel '
Transcr. :	Ivan Andrijowytsch Hel
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Иван Андреевич Гель
Transl .:	Ivan Andreevič Gel '
Transcr .:	Ivan Andreevich gel

Ivan Andrijowytsch Hel (born July 17, 1937 in Klicko , Lviv Voivodeship , Poland ; † March 16, 2011 in Lviv , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian human rights activist, dissident, politician, writer, religious leader and one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union .

Life

Due to his refusal to join the Komsomol , he was expelled from school in 1952. In 1954 he attended a business school in Sambir and then moved to Lviv. In 1965 he was arrested for distributing samizdat and served three years in a labor camp in Mordovia . Another arrest and conviction for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" followed in 1972, so that he spent a total of 16 years in captivity and 5 years in exile. In the course of perestroika , Hel returned to Lviv at the beginning of 1987, where he and Vyacheslav Chornovil re-founded the Ukrainian Herald ( Український вісник ) and became an editorial staff member there. From the end of the same year he headed a committee of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in order to legalize the church , which has been operating underground for 40 years. After Ukrainian independence he was active as a politician.

He died in Lviv and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery there.

Honors

Hel received the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 5th Class in 2002 , the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 4th Class in 2006 and the Ukrainian Order of Freedom in 2009 for his significant contribution to the revival of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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• Wyklyk systemi 2013 Chasopis-Verlag, Lviw ISBN 9789662720129

Web links

• Article on Iwan Hel in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto)
• Entry by Ivan Hel in the "Who's Who" of Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ukrainian dissident Ivan Hel has died , in Religious Information Service of Ukraine of March 16, 2011; accessed on August 16, 2016
2. ↑ Article on the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Iwan Hel in Pravda of July 18, 2011; accessed on August 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
4. ^ At the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lemberg, Iwan Hel said goodbye , in zik on March 18, 2011; accessed on August 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 694/2006 of August 18, 2006 on the award of state awards; accessed on August 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
6. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 759/2009 of September 18, 2009 on the award of state awards; accessed on August 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
7. ↑ Book Description Wyklyk systemi Ukrainian Liberation Movement in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Ivan Hel; Retrieved August 16, 2016 (Russian)